The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

                                
                                  Of al þe remenan of myne oþere care
                                
                                  Ne sette .I. nouht þe mountance of a tare
                                
                                  So þat .I. couþe do ouhte to ȝowre plesance
                                
                                  And wiþ þat worde he fel doune in a trance
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                                  A longe tim and he afterwarde vpstert
                                
                                  ¶ This Palamon þat þouht þat þoruhe his herte
                                
                                  He felde a colde swerde sodeinly glide
                                
                                  ffore ire he whoke no lenger wolde he bide
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                                  And whan þat he had herde Arcites tale
                                
                                  As he were wode wiþe face dede and pale
                                
                                  He stert him vpe oute of þe boskes þikke
                                
                                  And seide Arcite. false treitoure wikke
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                                  Nowe art þow hent þat louest mi ladie so
                                
                                  ffor whome þat .I. haue al þis peine and woo
                                
                                  And art my blode and to my consel sworne
                                
                                  As .I. ful oft haue tolde þe here be-forne
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                                  And hast be-japed here Duc Theseus
                                
                                  And falsely haste þou chaunged. þi name þus
                                
                                  .I. wil be dede or elles þou schalt diȝe
                                
                                  Thou schalt nouht loue my ladie Emelye
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                                  Bot .I. will louere onely. and no mo
                                
                                  ffor .I. am Palamon þi mortal fo
                                
                                  And þoughe þat .I. no wepen haue in þis place.
                                
                                  Bot owte of prisoun am asterte be grace
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                                  .I. drede nouht þat ouþer þu schal diȝe [See V. 54.] 
                                
                                  Or þou ne schat not louen Emelye
                                
                                  Ches whiche þou wilte or þou schalt nouht asterte
                                
                                  ¶ This Arcite wiþ ful dispitouse herte
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                                  Whan he him knewe and had his tale herde
                                
                                  As fers a[s] lion he pulled owte a swerde
                                
                                  And seid þus be god þat sitteþ aboue
                                
                                  Nere it were þat þou art seke and woode for loue
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                                  And eke þat þou no wepen hast in þis place
                                
                                  Thou scholdest neuer oute of þis groue pace.
                                
                                  That þou ne scholdest deiȝen of myne honde [folio 21a] 
                                
                                  ffor .I. defie þe suyrte and þe bonde ['Love cannot be given up as thou deemest: and he loves but little, who ceases loving in order to keep a promise.' V. 51.]  [V. 51.] 
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Title: The Lansdowne ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
Canvas: Page 46
Publication: London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,; 1867-1879.

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